We appreciate all of the feedback we've received regarding the need for better communication of permission updates.

This purpose of this document is to inform you of any updates or changes that are made to the Canvas Course Role Permissions and Canvas Account Role Permissions PDF documents. We will specify which permission was updated and what specifically changed with the permission. We typically publish updates to the permission documents on production release days, when necessary. Occasionally, we may publish updates in between release cycles.

The most recent update(s) will always be listed at the top of this document.

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May 11, 2019

Account-level settings - manage

Role: Account

Additional Considerations: Added Feature Options section

Grades - edit

Role: Account

Additional Considerations: In Quizzes, added To view the submission log, Quizzes - view submission log must also be enabled.

Additional Considerations: changed text in Course Settings row to For course-level users, deleting a course is part of the Change Course State permission. However, for account-level users, deleting a course also requires the Manage (add / edit / delete) courses permission.

March 31, 2018

Clarified The following permissions and settings never apply to subaccounts

UnderThe following permissions and settings never apply to subaccounts, addedAdd/Manage Terms

In third paragraph bullet list, added At the account level, the only default role is Account Admin.

Manage account-level settings

Role: Account

Features Affected: revised to Authentication (Account Navigation)

What It Does: added for the whole account

Feature: added Account Settings (Subaccount Navigation)

Related Information: added Not all settings options are available at the subaccount level, including the Notifications tab.

Modify Login Details for Users

Role: Account

Features Affected: added Allows user to create accounts for new users with the account-level Add People button.

Additional Considerations: added People (Course) row

Add/remove other teachers, course designers or TAs to the course

Role: Account

Features Affected: added Courses (account) row

Additional Considerations: added Courses (account) row

Add/remove students for the course

Role: Account

Features Affected: added Courses (account) row

Additional Considerations: added Courses (account) row

Manage Learning Outcomes

Role: Account, Course

Features Affected: added information that this permission allows users to import outcomes to Outcomes row

March 10, 2018

Terminology Update: In the Account Permissions PDF, "People (Account)" has replaced "Users" in reference to the account navigation link to view and manage users for the account. This change helps align terminology in the PDF with the Canvas UI.

Manage SIS data

Role: Account

Features Affected: Added People (Account) row

Additional Considerations: Added People (Account) row

Modify login details for users

Role: Account

Features Affected: Removed Allows user to view user account details

Features Affected: Added Allows user to modify user account details such as name, email, and time zone

Additional Considerations: added the following considerations to the People (Account) row

To view user account details, See the list of users must be enabled

To view a user's SIS ID, Manage SIS data or Read SIS data must also be enabled

To view a user's Integration ID, Manage SIS data must also be enabled

Read SIS data

Role: Account

Features Affected: Added People (Account) row

Additional Considerations: Added People (Account) row

Additional Considerations: Renamed Users row to People (Course)

View Grade Change Logs

Role: Account

Additional Considerations: Added To search by course ID or assignment ID, Edit grades must also be enabled and To search by Assignment ID only, View all grades must also be enabled.

Thank you for providing this. We look forward to seeing more permission settings moving forward.

One of the biggest permission issue for us is that the area admin rights take priority over the course rights. This makes it impossible for our employees to take courses. In higher education where we encourage this of our employees, it becomes a major issue.

We would like the Course Rights to take priority over the admin rights.

This document is just to report the permissions, so to get some traction on that idea, I'd recommend you take a look at this feature idea about permissions. It needs to be fleshed out more with specifics, and so people have been adding a lot of comments. I think you could add some good insight there for what you'd like to see with course rights and see what others have to say as well!

If you haven't visited our Canvas Studio page lately, you may want to see Priority: Granular Permissions. Our product team would like feedback with what permissions are needed for granularity, so we'd love your input!